Do you think the adoption of a slave labor system in colonial America was inevitable? Why or why not? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: need for labor, declining availability of indentured servants, growing availability and lower price for black slaves, anti-black racial attitudes, no prohibition in law, established models for slavery […]
After 1815, America’s legal system began to promote the values of a market economy, especially the concept of A) economic stability. B) usurious interest rates. C) just price. D) supply and demand. ANSWER D
English mercantilists believed A) to become wealthy, a nation needed to avoid government regulation of its economy. B) a favorable balance of trade would build a nation’s power. C) there was an infinite amount of wealth in the world. D) national wealth and national power were essentially unrelated. ANSWER B
The Johnson County War was provoked by charges of A) Indian attack. B) highway robbery. C) claim jumping. D) cattle rustling. ANSWER D
In the long run, President Cleveland’s handling of the Venezuela boundary dispute resulted in A) a mediated settlement giving Venezuela the larger share of the disputed territory. B) diminishing the power of the president over American foreign policy. C) the rapid deterioration of relations between the United States and Britain. D) an arbitrated settlement giving […]
During the Civil War, England and the Union were most nearly provoked into war with each other by A) the Trent affair involving the Union’s seizure of southern diplomats from an English ship. B) English-made commerce raiders’ attacks on northern shipping. C) the incompetence of the American ambassador to England, Charles Francis Adams. D) England’s […]
The major theme of the Harlem Renaissance was A) racial pride. B) “back to Africa.” C) building a culture of poverty. D) resentment of whites. ANSWER A
Which of the following did NOT favor negotiating an end to the Civil War and letting the South leave the Union? A) Radical Republicans B) Clement L. Vallandigham C) “Copperheads” D) Peace Democrats ANSWER A
In public, President Lincoln justified his Emancipation Proclamation on grounds of A) its contributing to military victory for the Union. B) its being the most effective way to quiet Peace Democrats. C) the immorality of slavery. D) fulfilling the ideals of the American Revolution. ANSWER A
In 1863, African Americans were A) given equal pay and work assignments with whites as soon as they enlisted in the Union Army. B) generally stereotyped as incapable of serving as effective combat soldiers. C) integrated into Union Army units after the Emancipation Proclamation. D) profoundly disappointed by the limits of the Emancipation Proclamation. […]
